Swim Coach In Deep Water Texting 13 Year Old Girl

UPDATE: (Bridgeport Police Report)– A swim coach was arrested Wednesday for sending inappropriate text messages to a 13-year-old member of the swim team for which he works.

Police Officer Bobby Jones responded Wednesday to a recreation facility at 400 University Ave. on a report that the suspect, Alan Marcel, 28, of Norwalk, had sent text messages with sexual content to one of his swimmers.

The texts were discovered on the girl’s phone by the victim’s mother, who alerted a member of the board of directors from the swim club. Marcel is an instructor with the club.

Police reviewed the texts and observed texts from the suspect to the victim that were explicitly sexual.

Marcel was arrested for risk of injury to a minor and enticing a minor. He was held on $20,000 bond.

8:22pm–#Bridgeport CT — A 28 year old male swim coach is in deep water after the Executive Director of the Park City Wolfpack called police to report that a swim coach has been sending inappropriate text messages to a 13 year old girl according to scanner reports. The coach is in the athletic building with the girl and the girl’s mother is in the parking lot with the girl’s cellphone when police were called.